Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 listing scrapeds

Try for free

Go to Apify Store

Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes

Try for free

Turn images and multi-page PDFs into text with Google Lens OCR. Use image URLs, uploaded screenshots, Base64, or Apify storage, or call the Standby REST endpoint. Get word and line boxes, writing direction, translation, and a status per image. From $0.003 per image. Not affiliated with Google.

Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 listing scrapeds

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

GetAScraper

Actor stats

Bookmarked

184

Total users

Monthly active users

3 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

MCP servers

Features

You can access the Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "imageUrl": "https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/img/eng_bw.png",
10    "imageUrlInputId": "",
11    "imageUrls": [],
12    "imagesBase64": [],
13    "imageKvsRecords": [],
14    "pdfUrl": "",
15    "pdfUrlInputId": "",
16    "pdfUrls": [],
17    "maxPdfPages": 20,
18    "outputDetail": "full",
19    "translateTo": "",
20    "maxConcurrency": 3,
21}
22
23# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24run = client.actor("getascraper/google-lens-ocr").call(run_input=run_input)
25
26# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
27print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
28for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
29    print(item)
30
31# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Extract Text from Images and PDFs: Google Lens OCR API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes API in JavaScript

Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes API through CLI

Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes OpenAPI definition

Google Lens OCR API: Image to Text and PDF OCR with Word Boxes API

Google Lens | AI Mode | Reverse image search | Translation+OCR

borderline/google-lens

Google Lens | Reverse image search | AI Mode🌟 Seamlessly identify text, translate in real time 🌐, recognize and classify objects 🎁, reverse search images 🔍, and extract detailed structured data 📚. It’s fast, reliable, and affordable—your essential tool for all visual intelligence needs! 🚀

borderline

2.4K

3.9

(4)

Instagram Post & Reel Details Scraper · No Login

data-slayer/instagram-post-details

Get full details from any Instagram post or Reel by URL — no login. 128 fields: likes, comments, views, shares, saves, reposts, captions, audio metadata, video URLs, and creator profiles. Bulk URL input. Includes repost_count missing from Apify's own scraper. JSON/CSV/Excel.

Data Slayer

5.4K

5.0

(2)

Podcast Transcription Scraper — Speech to Text, Audio to Text

steadyfetch/media-transcriber

Audio & video transcription: never charged for a link we can't reach, can't decode, or that has no speech. Any audio or video to text, SRT and VTT with timestamped segments — direct file links from any host, plus 14 tested sites for page links. About 90 languages, no API key of your own.

Steadyfetch Team

417

Instagram Transcript Scraper — Instagram Reels Transcript API

steadyfetch/instagram-reel-transcript-scraper

Instagram reel transcripts: a creator's reels as text — full video to text, the first-3s hook, language and timestamps, one row per reel with its date, plays and likes. Handle in, paste reel links, or chain a dataset ID. No login, any length. Music-only, private and failed reels are never charged.

Steadyfetch Team

5.3K

5.0

(1)

Instagram Reels Transcript Scraper — Instagram Video Transcript

afanasenko/instagram-reel-script-extractor

Instagram reels scraper with transcripts — the spoken words plus the on-screen text (OCR) audio-only tools miss, and each reel's hook, beats and call to action. Transcribes silent music-only reels too. Paste reel links, a profile handle to rank its reels by views, or a keyword or hashtag to search.

Andrey Afanasenko

1.3K

Web Fetch

apify/web-fetch

Download any web page by URL and convert it to clean Markdown, plain text, HTML, and other formats. Automatically renders JavaScript and works around bot blocking. The Actor provides a real-time API for quick response times.

Apify

54K

5.0

(4)

Google Lens OCR API - Handwriting, Translation & Image to Text

s-r/google-lens-ocr

Turn image URLs into text with Google Lens OCR. Get the full text, paragraphs with lines, optional word bounding boxes and an optional translation for scans, screenshots, photos and handwriting. Built for developers, data teams and document workflows. Pay per image read.

245

Real-Time Lens Data API

openweb-ninja/real-time-lens-data

Fast and reliable Google Lens API - search by image and get visual matches, exact matches, object detection, and image to text (OCR) in real-time.

OpenWeb Ninja

Instagram Transcript API & Profile Scraper - AI Video to Text

apple_yang/instagram-transcripts-scraper

Instagram Reels Transcript API for converting video audio into structured text using AI. Extract transcripts, timestamped segments, media URLs, and metadata from public Reels and videos. Also supports public profile post scraping for creator research, competitor research, and automation workflows.

APISmith

3.8K

4.5

(13)

Google Images Scraper

automation-lab/google-images-scraper

Scrape Google Images results. Extract full-resolution image URLs, thumbnails, dimensions, titles, and source pages. Filter by size, color, type, and usage rights. No API key needed.